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The Disconnection Of The Spider In Walt Whitman's Noiseless

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“Noiseless” means silent. Noiseless also allows us to know that whoever or whatever is observing the spider is bigger than the spider. The spider was also “patient” which also means that he is accepting to delays and problems without becoming annoyed. This helps the reader begin to look at the spider in a different way instead of as a plain spider. Whitman uses “I mark’d” which means he was the one to notice where the spider was at. The spider was on a “promontory” or a high point on land. The spider was “isolated” all by himself on the high point of the land. This allows us to know how Whitman feels. Whitman feels a disconnection between him and the spider. Next he uses the word “vacant” and “vast” which mean empty and of great size. Whitman
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